... and interesting option. Especially for Year 10 and Year 11 students, who were due to take important examinations. Essential revision lessons, which would have been extremely useful preparation for their upcoming exams were cancelled, forcing students to study independently with texts and information from schoolteachers via e-mail. Obviously, revision with books is never as effective as an actual lesson, where teachers discuss problems and revision techniques with a whole class. Moreover, self-study is boring and many students found it hard to absorb information. This, along with the distractions of the Internet and television meant that many students inevitably failed their exams. Besides from the negative consequences that SARS brought to Hong Kong, it also brought some positive ones. The relationships between parents and their children had been practically non-existent before. However, SARS enabled parents to spend more time together with family members. The increased interactions between the two generations give ...

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